Inhuman (TRƯỚP)
2023 · 11m · Vietnam
Directed by Hung Tran
Genres: crime, horror, thriller
A woman alone in her home is watched through the night by an unseen presence, in a home-invasion thriller with a ghost-like twist.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Home invasion as a vehicle for existential dread instead of adrenaline—Tran subverts the genre's contract, and watching the form collapse into something closer to a haunting is genuinely unsettling in ways jump-scares could never touch.
Inhuman positions itself deliberately in the lineage of art-horror and slow-burn dread, with the formal control to sustain atmospheric tension across eleven minutes; this is a film that understands the difference between scares and sustained unease.
The decision to render menace as presence rather than intrusion—to make the camera itself feel watched—is what transforms a familiar premise into something that lingers; that single tonal choice does all the heavy lifting.
Reviews
An eerie horror short steeped in an atmosphere that never lets up.
Tran's direction is both stylish and distinctive… he uses horror not just to thrill, but to create a deeply unsettling mood that lingers long after the final frame.
Festivals
- CinemaSHORT Asian Short Film Competition 2023, Jury Award
- CinemaSHORT Asian Short Film Competition 2023, Audience Choice Award